iOS 7.0.6 was released a couple of days ago with a fix for a really nasty SSL connection verification bug that could leave you susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks on wireless networks from people with malicious intent snooping on your Web activity.

Since SSL connection verification is commonly used in secure Web communication
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The US Air Force announced earlier in February that it will be swapping out roughly 5,000 BlackBerry devices for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. The move is a first step in the eventual retirement of all BlackBerry products carried by USAF personnel. The initial Air Force push involves the activation of a mix of iPhones and iPads, while further BlackBerry
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On Friday, well-known 17-year old student and iOS hacker winocm announced that he would soon be moving down a new career path. In a Tweet on Twitter, the hacker noted that he would begin work at Apple later in the year (2014). He also noted that security isn't really his personal interest.

Apparent skin irritation issues have forced Fitbit to cease sales of its wrist-worn, iPhone-compatible, Force. The issues were so bad the company ended up recalling units of the fitness tracker that are already on the market. The official Fitbit Force recall notice was posted by the company on its website this week, in which CEO James Park formally
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Apple recently issued a minor update for its mobile operating system with iOS 7.0.6 fixing an issue with SSL connection verification. The new update is available by accessing the Software Update option in the native Settings application on a compatible iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The security update can also be installed by connecting a device
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If you do a lot of social networking, or you message or e-mail people a lot, then you may be interested in a new add-on for Action Menu called QuickShare for Action Menu (iOS 7) by iOS developer Merlin.

This add-on will add social sharing options to the copy/paste menu that is brought up when you tap and hold on something. The
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Yes, the iPhone's Camera application does have the option to disable the camera flash already, but for whatever reason, I always seem to goof up and mistakenly forget to turn the camera flash off every once in a while after using it, and then when I need to take a picture the next time and the camera flash goes off because I forgot to turn it
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In the event that you want to have speeddial-like functionality from the Lock Screen, you can use a new jailbreak tweak called PassDial Pro by iOS developer Sassoty to assign different contacts' phone numbers to different "passcodes" on your Lock Screen.

Just after two months after launching a new SDK for their gesture-based keyboard into beta, Fleksy recently announced that the free program is now open to all developers and that a number of new apps have come on board. According to Fleksy, developers can integrate the keyboard in minutes without making alterations to their app or adding new
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Last year, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called Athena by iOS developer Vatsal Manot that allowed you to add tint effects to your Home Screen application icons. An iOS 7-compatible version of the tweak dubbed Athena 2 (iOS 7) is now available in Cydia and has the same idea in mind for your iOS 7 application icons, only with some additional
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For whatever reason, Apple limited the transparent keyboard with the blurred background effect to the iPhone and iPod touch only. iPad users have been forced to deal with solid-looking keyboards that are boring and have no level of transparency or blur effects whatsoever.